Christopher Cruz Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

New York City Metropolitan Area

New York, New York, United States

As the Senior Production Coordinator for Apt-122, I work diligently to help establish processes for those who follow in my footsteps as coordinators, while also working directly on current high value client projects. So far with the team at Apt-122, I've played a pivotal role in event production for clients like UnitedMasters & Google. Our teams rely on me to keep our timelines on track, keep information flowing, and organize all assets for our creative and production teams to be able to work without any fires disrupting their process. As a coordinator, my tasks look different from project to project - essentially I flow like water pushing forward whatever tasks that arise and need to be accomplished.

Greater New York City Area

I've been a champion of Freelance culture since I've began my professional creative career. "Be your own boss" is a slogan I ride for heavily. Launching CC Photography LLC was the beginning of me taking my Photography career seriously, then eventually learning how to be a Producer of many facets.Under my company, I provide photography services as a photographer and creative producer. I also provide my services as an experiential producer and work along side creative agency teams & clients to put on events that attendees would never forget!

New York City Metropolitan Area

My time at FIG was short-lived due to prior project commitments, but it was glorious nonetheless. As a contract studio producer for FIG, I pushed forward the production of client projects and internal pitch videos. Some projects included producing photo & video assets for Seat Geek's first National ad campaign, producing over 100 photo assets for a Benjamin Moore paint Pinterest campaign, and producing pitch manifesto videos for two very prominent liquor brands.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Before the end of my tenure with Dear World, I took on the role of Senior Production Manager - I managed all live and digital experiences for both corporate and college clients. As the Senior Production Manager I was focused on logistics, creative ideation, process optimization, customer interaction, and project management to take each project from sales concept to event execution. All projects on our plate went through me for production and I assembled the creative teams for bringing them to fruition.

New York, New York

I began my work with Dear World as a Freelance photographer. This required me to set up all photoshoot equipment and capture photographs of participants who wrote messages on their bodies. These photoshoots would last anywhere from 2 hrs to multiple-day shoots with instant exports of images via Capture One & photographing Tethered to my laptop.After a couple of months, I started my formal Producer career becoming a Field Producer for Dear World. This got me much more involved with the company and I started seeing projects through from pre-production, to live event production, to post-production. Soon after I became a Full-time Producer working alongside the Head of Production to produce and also photograph over 100 events for Dear World. After 4 years of working for Dear World in this capacity, I played any and every role that the production required; From Photographer to Producer, to Storyteller/Public Speaker.

New York City Metropolitan Area

My creative career began here, as a Studio/Photo Assistant for my mentor, Sasha Maslov. From him, I learned how to photograph like a professional. He taught me how to use many strobes and LED lights to optimally light subjects, how to interface with a client, how to edit photos after a gig, how to manage myself and a home studio as a creative, and how to put on your own solo photo exhibition. Together we photographed the likes of Sarah Paulson, Hugh Dancy, Christian Slater, Michele Oka Doner, Stuart Vevers, Francois Gilot, Elon Musk, Van Jones, Ben Feldman, Deray Mckesson, Paul Rust, Neil Gaimon, Mahershala Ali, LeVar Burton...the list of A list names was endless - All for publications like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, The Washington Post.